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1. 42nd Street (1933)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 13,064 | Gross: $2.30M
2. The Frogmen (1951)
Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, War
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 1,559
3. Brother Orchid (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Donald Crisp
Votes: 3,198
4. Marked Woman (1937)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 4,849
5. Footlight Parade (1933)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
Votes: 6,108 | Gross: $3.49M
6. Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical
World War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. The band fails to take off and he is forced to join a minstrel show headed by Colonel Wallace. He soon falls for Wallace's niece Chris Hall.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett, Lori Nelson
Votes: 172
7. It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley
Votes: 1,901
8. The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
Approved | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan
Votes: 2,370
9. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, War
An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop
Votes: 4,561
10. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend's kit without permission and her attempts at selling cosmetics ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins
Votes: 1,077
11. The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Western
During the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,658
12. Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
A newly hired dumb secretary working for a bookie masquerading as a Realtor causes unintended hilarious troubles for her employer.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Lucille Ball, William Holden, Janis Carter, James Gleason
Votes: 1,008
13. The French Line (1953)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When her fiancé leaves her, an oil heiress takes a cruise incognito in order to find a man who will love her for herself and not for her money.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Hunnicutt, Mary McCarty
Votes: 701
14. Call Me Mister (1951)
Approved | 96 min | Musical, Romance
A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson
Votes: 281 | Gross: $2.70M
15. An Innocent Affair (1948)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
Vincent Doane tries to close an advertising deal with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and decides to make him jealous flirting with a tycoon.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Rita Johnson
Votes: 355
16. Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,159
17. Larceny, Inc (1942)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson
Votes: 3,153
18. Invisible Stripes (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 1,928 | Gross: $0.11M
19. A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 2,568
20. Wonder Bar (1934)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores Del Río, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 738
21. She Couldn't Say No (1953)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A wealthy heiress returns to a small Arkansas town to furtively reward the townsfolk who helped to save her life when she was a young girl.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 950
22. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Victor Moore
Votes: 1,211
23. Home, Sweet Homicide (1946)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A mystery writer's three children confuse a police detective working on a murder.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 363
24. Moby Dick (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama
In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. Ashore in New Bedford, he ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson
Votes: 642
25. Navy Blues (1941)
Passed | 108 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye, Jack Haley
Votes: 349
26. Ever Since Eve (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly
Votes: 1,578
27. San Quentin (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane
Votes: 2,239
28. The Irish in Us (1935)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
Two brothers, a police officer and a boxing promoter, vie for the affections of a lovely young woman.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Frank McHugh
Votes: 774
29. Picture Snatcher (1933)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis, Alice White
Votes: 1,749
30. The Good Humor Man (1950)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An ice-cream seller unwittingly gets involved with a femme-fatale, leading to murder-charges, gangsters and factory payroll robberies.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace, George Reeves
Votes: 513
31. Cain and Mabel (1936)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 2,069
32. Frisco Kid (1935)
Passed | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Lili Damita
Votes: 692
33. Kill the Umpire (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Sport
An umpire-hating ex-baseball player loses many jobs because of his passion for watching ball games during working hours, but he decides to combine business with pleasure by becoming an umpire himself.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: William Bendix, Una Merkel, Ray Collins, Gloria Henry
Votes: 633
34. Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A respected investment advisor has a double life as a mystery writer and becomes involved in the real murder of a shady client.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,424
35. Mother Is a Freshman (1949)
81 min | Comedy, Romance
In order to afford her daughter's college tuition, a woman enrolls herself at the same school aided by a rare large bursary but they both fall in love with the same cute English professor.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Loretta Young, Van Johnson, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence
Votes: 461
36. Golden Girl (1951)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Musical, Western
Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day, James Barton
Votes: 319
37. Wings for the Eagle (1942)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, George Tobias
Votes: 337
38. Honeymoon for Three (1941)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, nevertheless agrees to a tete-a-tete with a former college fling, loopy Danish girl Julie who is married to ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, George Brent, Charles Ruggles, Osa Massen
Votes: 595
39. The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 468
40. Racket Busters (1938)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Manhattan gangster John "Czar" Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang's office to ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Gloria Dickson, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 810
41. The Singing Fool (1928)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical
A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman
Votes: 284 | Gross: $10.90M
42. In Caliente (1935)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Hard-drinking Larry MacArthur, editor of a sophisticated magazine, is taken to the Agua Caliente resort by his publisher, Harold Brandon, in order to dry out and sober up. Larry becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Pat O'Brien, Leo Carrillo, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 392
43. The Office Wife (1930)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Romance
Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the 'Office Wife'. The personal secretary/stenographer spends more time with the busy executive and makes more ... See full summary »
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 493
44. A Child Is Born (1939)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
A maternity ward, staffed by sympathetic nurses, serves mothers-to-be from all walks of life. These include a happy mother of a large family; a secretly-married teenager who thinks their ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gladys George, Gale Page
Votes: 214 | Gross: $0.04M
45. Wake Up and Dream (1946)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A little girl asks her guardians to take her by boat to a nearby swamp believing her older brother, a sailor who recently went M.I.A. in WWII, is somehow there. She finds a grumpy old Crusoe-like hermit, instead, but there's still hope.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: John Payne, June Haver, Charlotte Greenwood, Connie Marshall
Votes: 171
46. Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
Two screenwriters in a rut come up with a story idea starring a bankable cowboy and the baby of the studio's waitress.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 812
47. Submarine D-1 (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Drama
Navy officers fall for Ann. She has her own plans. USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. The USS Dolphin (D-1) and her crew depart from ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris, Frank McHugh
Votes: 322
48. Captain Eddie (1945)
Approved | 107 min | Biography, Drama
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Lynn Bari, Charles Bickford, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 172
49. Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh
Votes: 1,169 | Gross: $2.58M
50. Miss Pinkerton (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A hospital nurse is recruited by the police to watch a household where a suspicious death has occurred.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall, John Wray
Votes: 609